![]() ![]() Graveyards play a significant part in the book with prime character Anjum setting her Jannat Guest around a graveyard and Miss Jebeen the First who is buried in overcrowded Martyrs graveyard in Kashmir. His striking photograph of a Delhi tomb serves as the cover with a withered red rose and a fly on the edge. ![]() I was charmed by the simple and expressive cover admiring the work of photographer Mayank Austen Soofi. I was wondering what kind of a story that this novel holds out of the two decades of time the author took for her second fiction novel. 20 years have passed since her winning the most coveted literary prize of the world “The Man Booker Prize” in 1997 for her book “The God of Small Things” and here we are happy and elated about her new book “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”. It seemed like a sudden literary burst after two decades. I am sure this is true particularly with Arundhati Roy’s writing. They say the flow of times changes everything and everyone. ![]()
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